Thanks Jim ! If any Chinese or Japanese who knows how to perform this little feat would be willing to explain the process to me in his or her own language, I should be very happy to receive such a message to my epost address. In the event I succeed in following the instructions and get the process to work, I promise to return to this forum with an English-language version. And I certainly intend to continue bothering participants in the Ubuntu with my problems, again, if I find a solution there, I shall forward it to this thread. Thanks to all of you that have weighed in on this matter, which is vital to me ; I hope you will continue to do so !...
Henri 2006/12/15, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
M Henri Day wrote: > It just goes to show, things aren't always what they seem to be ! I'm > beginning to feel pretty 'alien' myself, when confronted with these > difficulties ! Could I ask you, Jim, to explain in some detail for a > 'noob' > some myself, to what you were referring when you referred to 'setting up > [the "official" version of OOo] with alien' ? If little green men from > Mars > or some as yet to us unknown Earth-like planet circling a distant star > can > help me with these download problems, I'd be delighted !... > > My greatest problem, along side of which OOo's sudden disappearance > followed > by resurrection in which the lost documents are easily recovered, is > merely > a minor annoyance, is that I've been unable to gain access to a means of > writing passages in Chinese or Japanese in documents written mainly in > European languages. I've installed all the SCIM-files in Ubuntu and > made the > appropriate adjustments in OOo, but the one thing I've hitherto been > unable > to do is to activate the settings so that I can insert a series of > graphs (a > book title, a quote, etc) into a sentence in say, English or French or > Swedish. What do I have to do ? My standard keyboard setting is Swedish, > which works rather well for most European languages (not so well for > Danish > or Norwegian, but that is an inter-Nordic dispute), and I have set > simplified Chinese as the standard for so-called 'Asian' languages. > But how > can I change from the former to the latter, either between documents or > within a document. I've read the help pages which tell me to use > 'Control + > space' or 'shift + space' to toggle back and forth between the two > settings, > but nothing happens ! This, indeed, was easier in Windows and Word, where > everything required could be accomplished with a few mouse clicks. > Anybody > feel like taking pity on me in my ignorance and providing me with > step-by-step instructions to make things work ?... > > Henri > > 2006/12/14, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I Use Ubuntu as well, though I haven't switched to the new version > just yet. > I've always used the 'official' version of OOo, setting it up with alien. > The first few Ubuntu Openoffices did not include the thesaurus,but if you > wanted to go to the trouble, you could load the Ubuntu OpenOffice > Thesaurus > separately. > > That made me wonder what else they'd been messing around with, so I > only use > the official version now. That way, when I have a problem, I can get help > from the users group. > > JimW > To help you install, go to http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/oo2install.shtml (Ignore the fact that it refers to 2.0. The process is what's important. This is the page I referred to in my own install.) As for the rest, I had a phase where I tried to get SCIM working on Mandrake, but was never able to do so. The biggest trouble is that most of the people, it seems, who know anything about these input methods are Chinese themselves, and I have never been able to track down one who could explain it in English. Since Ubuntu is set up to deal with Unicode inherently, it ought to be easier to do the Asian languages. One of the first things one would have to do is to Get onto your Ubuntu Desktop and go System>Preferences>keyboard and set the keyboard to whichever country you're dealing with. You then use a Unicode-Compliant font, and your SCIM or XIM should be able to work. (I can't give any detailed instructions, because I've never tried it on Ubuntu. You might ask on the Ubuntu Forums about that.) Good Luck JimW
